Advances in Coastal Modeling (Elsevier Oceanography Series)
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: October 24, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9780444511492
Subjects: Geological surface processes (geomorphology); Oceanography (seas); Science; Science/Mathematics; Earth Sciences - Geology; Geophysics; Science / Geophysics; Earth Sciences - General; Earth Sciences - Oceanography; Engineering - Civil; Coast changes; Mathematical models
First sentence: Classical Boussinesq theory provides a set of evolution equations for surface water waves in the combined limit of weak nonlinearity (characterized by &lt;&lt; 1) and weak dispersion ( &lt;&lt; 1) with the ratio = O(1).